5th Nov 2018

Introduction to WAZA

WAZA originates from its meaning in japanese whereby it represents action/movement with a certain form.

In WAZA, our product consists of:

  • WAZA Gloves

  • WAZA Application

WAZA Gloves

Material

Our WAZA Gloves are made with the ALLsense fabric which contains high-quality fabric with embedded textile circuitry to incorporate microcontroller (E.g. Arduino) to monitor movements from user. The microcontroller can be connected to the WAZA Application via Bluetooth.

WAZA Gloves

Sensors

Our WAZA Gloves currently has 3 main sensors: Accelerometer, Proximity sensor and the Touch sensor.

WAZA Application

The WAZA application allows the user to log in to their WAZA accounts to view their training and competition records.

WAZA Application

Users can select the following modes:

  • Training
  • Competition

WAZA Application: Training Mode

Users can select the components they want to track. Selected components will be highlighted. Once START is pressed, the tracking begins.

WAZA Application: Accelerometer Data

Accelerometer Data that can be extracted from WAZA Gloves to WAZA App.

WAZA Application: Gesture Recognition

By using sensors and IoT, we can use Dynamic Time Warping Algorithm to perform gesture recognition in WAZA App to identify the different sparring movements for the WAZA Gloves.

WAZA Application: Proximity Data

Proximity data is collected from the sensors and recorded in the WAZA App.